All I Want for Christmas Is to Get Out of Immigration Detention
The Davis Vanguard tells some very sad holiday stories about children in immigrant detention over the holidays:
“Families are not supposed to be in immigration detention at all — and certainly not for more than a few days — but these children have been locked up with their mothers for more than a year. They are fleeing violence in Central America and asked for asylum in the United States. They got caught in legal limbo while their lawyers press for the Supreme Court to hear their case.
The youngest have spent almost half their lives locked up and don’t have a single memory formed outside the confines of the Berks County detention facility. But they do believe in Santa and wrote letters to him saying what they want for Christmas. Even the youngest kids ask Santa, more than anything else, to give them their freedom.”
KJ